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CLERMONT — For Michaela McLean, 16, of Clermont, her performance this week could further her goal of helping teens get healthier with proper nutrition. Michaela, an eighth-generation Floridian who recently was crowned Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen, is competing this week in the Miss America's Outstanding Teen pageant at the Linda W. Chapin Theater at the Orange County Convention Center. She is already using her position as Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen to bring her platform of nutritional awareness to as many schools as she can during her reign this year. She hopes to reach 50 schools with at least 200 students at each school who will participate in her...

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CLERMONT — For Michaela McLean, 16, of Clermont, her performance this week could further her goal of helping teens get healthier with proper nutrition.
Michaela, an eighth-generation Floridian who recently was crowned Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen,...

When Katie Corkill shops, she stays along the perimeter of the grocery store. What lies within those inside aisles _ packaged food filled with preservatives and injected with unnaturally long shelf lives _ is the last thing she wants in her body.
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Despite some improvements, most fast-food restaurants still dish up unhealthy kids' meals -- and bombard youngsters with advertisements touting their calorie-laden offerings, according to a new study by Yale University researchers. The worst kids'...

The FDA is warning against using Uncle Ben’s Infused Rice linked to recent illness in Texas. The product was sold for wholesale distribution and Uncle Ben's retail grocery products are not affected. Product manufacturer Mars Foodservices has recalled...

Beyond what we eat, what we're born with and what we do, our environment contributes in major — and mostly unnoticed — ways to our health and our weight.All have conspired to make two-thirds of adult Americans and one-third of American youths...

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If you're a fan of the cable TV show Food Network Star, keep an eye out for UCF instructor Emily Ellyn, who will be a contestant next season. Ellyn, 29, a doctoral student who has taught a food-preparation class at UCF’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management

Nestlé Prepared Foods Co., a Gaffney, S.C., firm, is recalling about 16,890 pounds of Stouffer's lasagna frozen entrées that may instead contain stuffed peppers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today

The food service provider for the Orange County Convention Center breezed into the second phase of its ten-year contract this week when commissioners quietly approved to grant the extension. It’s not a big surprise, given the positive reviews Centerplate Hospi

As the economy makes a sluggish recovery, families in Orlando continue to find themselves struggling with food insecurity. Florida’s Cal-Maine Foods and Dixie Egg Co are donating more than 86,400 eggs to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida on April

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Posted May 10, 2011 at 6a.m. Jenny Craig easily surpassed Weight Watchers in a recent review by Consumer Reports. Jenny Craig, the diet program that combines counseling with a portion-controlled regimen of pre-made foods supplemented by home cooked sides, w

Winners were announced last night, Monday, May 9, 2011, at the annual 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards, the nation’s most prestigious recognition program honoring professionals in the food and beverage industries. During a ceremony hosted by Tom Colicchio, T

The E. coli outbreak that has made hundreds of Europeans ill is unlikely to affect the United States, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA officials have been in routine contact with the European Union and the U.S. Centers for Disease Contro